Holbrook line: Nathaniel Treadway, Immigrant

I didn't put the birth date of Nathaniel in the title for this post, because as far as I can tell, it's undetermined.  There are a lot of trees on line that give him a birthdate of August 7, 1604 in Wiltshire, England.  No doubt there was a Nathaniel Treadway born on that date in that location but we have little reason to think this is "our" Nathaniel Treadway.  Our Nathaniel was likely born about eleven years later.  His parents were Nathaniel and Mary Howe Treadway, who were married in Colchester, Essex, England on September 23, 1614.  This makes a birth date in 1615 more likely, although as far as I know, no records have yet been found for his birth. Colchester at the time was a town built around the cloth trade, and Nathaniel was a weaver, so it may be a matter or missing records that keep us from locating his birth records.

Nathaniel was in Sudbury, Massachusetts by 1639, which is where he is presumed to have married Suffrance Haynes, daughter of Walter and Elizabeth Gourd Haynes.  The date is generally given as May 10, 1640 but it's possible that it was a year earlier.  Their first child, Jonathan, was born November 11, 1640, and they had at least six other children.  Sometime between 1642 and 1646 the family moved to Watertown, Massachusetts which was their "forever" home.

Nathaniel seems to have been a man of some influence.  He was a selectman in Watertown for seven different years.  He was also a highway surveyor.

Nathaniel died July 20, 1689 at the age of 73.  His estate indicated a value of 377 pounds, including four books.  He also owned four cows, two oxen, and fifteen sheep, as well as several parcels of land. Suffrance had died seven years earlier.

There is much yet to be learned about Nathaniel.  I found a brief mention that he was a "meeting house man".  I'm not sure whether this means he was a member of the church, or had some town or church position, or what it means.  I've not found a record of him as a freeman, which seems a little bit out of the ordinary.  How educated was he?  As a selectman, one would think he could probably read and perhaps write, but four books are not sufficient to make a judgement that he was or was not literate.  Perhaps more of his books had already been given away.  I'd like to know more about this ancestor of ours.

The line of descent is:

Nathaniel Treadway-Suffrance Haynes
Elizabeth Treadway-Joseph Hayward
Lydia Hayward-John Hanchett
Hannah Hanchett-John Stannard
Libbeus Stannard-Eunice Pomeroy
Libbeus Stannard-Luceba (Euzebia) Fay
Hiram Stanard-Susan Eddy
Louis Stanard-Mary Alice Hetrick
Etta Stanard-Loren Holbrook
Gladys Holbrook-Richard Allen
Their descendants